The station was in 1886 measured as 19 mi 33 ch (31.2 km) south of Mercer,[2] which is where an unnamed block is shown on the 1929 map,[3] near the junction of Fisher Road with SH1, about 1.4 km (0.87 mi) north of the junction with the Kimihia branch.

In 1895 trains called at Kimihia Siding for school children and it became a flag station from 7 February 1896.

By the end of that year it had a shelter shed, passenger platform and a passing loop for 37 wagons.

[2] To ease congestion on the single track railway, a passing loop capable of holding 72 wagons was built in 1929.

[2] Until 2013 the mine was producing about 450,000 tonnes of coal a year, some 95% of it going by rail to Glenbrook steel mill.